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> However, if you go to his house on 11 Tee Pee Row, you will unfortunately speak to a kind person who will tell you that John has been passed away since 2016 and no one else there has the same name. This is my new favorite name for a residential street.
If net neutrality is axed I'm moving to Berlin to live on Max-Beer street. With HN throttled I'll need a new addiction.
I'd just like to point out, hopefully without being accused of shilling, that part of Net Neutrality legislation involves the quiet reclassification of ISPs as title ii common carriers. These are regulations designed for phone companies in the 1930s. Why should you worry? Because all network traffic will be subject to extremely broad obscenity laws. I will try to find the legislation shortly, but effectively, causing…
I've been trying to tell people this for a while - I do believe in net neutrality, but the title II classification is a boondoggle, and those laws need serious rewrite. I'm not seriously concerned about getting arrested for downloading pornography - When was the last time you heard of someone getting arrested for shouting "Fuck!" over the phone? - But I am concerned that those laws were written for Bell Telephone, an…
But, I would be happy if my cynicism gets proven wrong.
It is fairly clear at this point that FCC as an agency is a captive of business interests. It should be treated as openly hostile to the interests of the general public.
The U$ is an oligarchy in all but name.
Can we acknowledge we live in a dystopian era yet? What further has to happen?
Being we've had foreign governments messing with our democracy using social media and hacking, this should be fully investigated. I'm not claiming they are interfering, only saying we should rule out the possibility using our best forensics.
>messing with our democracy The U.S. has had a flawed democracy regardless of foreign meddling. Americans do not even elect their president directly. Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index#Democracy_Inde...
Being we've had foreign governments messing with our democracy using social media and hacking, this should be fully investigated. I'm not claiming they are interfering, only saying we should rule out the possibility using our best forensics.
>messing with our democracy The U.S. has had a flawed democracy regardless of foreign meddling. Americans do not even elect their president directly. Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index#Democracy_Inde...
Being we've had foreign governments messing with our democracy using social media and hacking, this should be fully investigated. I'm not claiming they are interfering, only saying we should rule out the possibility using our best forensics.
>messing with our democracy The U.S. has had a flawed democracy regardless of foreign meddling. Americans do not even elect their president directly. Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index#Democracy_Inde...
I'd just like to point out, hopefully without being accused of shilling, that part of Net Neutrality legislation involves the quiet reclassification of ISPs as title ii common carriers. These are regulations designed for phone companies in the 1930s. Why should you worry? Because all network traffic will be subject to extremely broad obscenity laws. I will try to find the legislation shortly, but effectively, causing…
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After saying that, yeah, an investigation is due...maybe laws were broken, but I can say that I used a dead person name as a way to be anon. In the end this should not matter, FCC is not running a vote. If they count pro /against this way then it's their problem. Arguments should be the only deciding factor.
Perhaps. But would you expect the FCC to actually sift through millions of stuffed comments just to get to the few good ones?
By stuffing the system with trash comments, the submitters effectively guaranteed that the FCC won't bother to read any of the comments.